“I have reviewed the three Toronto Police Service recordings you provided,” Lewis wrote in a two-sentence letter, which was released Friday by Blair.

“I can confirm that the statement you made in a public release on Oct. 28, 2011, is an accurate interpretation of the content of the tapes.”

In an interview with the Star, Lewis said Blair asked him last week to review the tapes and he did so immediately.

“I listened to all three tapes along with a superintendent,” Lewis said. “I took notes. The mayor appeared frustrated and upset on the calls.”

However, Lewis said he did not hear Ford use the word “bitches” and did not hear him say he was “Rob f---ing Ford.”

“I just called it like I saw it, as I always would and like Chief Blair did. The CBC’s portrayal of both Chief Blair and the comments of Mayor Ford were inaccurate and unfair,” Lewis said.

Ford had called 911 on Oct. 24 because he said he was worried for his family’s safety after This Hour Has 22 Minutes comedian Mary Walsh, dressed in warrior costume as the outlandish Marg Delahunty, caught him by surprise in his driveway early in the morning.

She stood close to him, peppered him with jokes and touched his back and shoulder as he got into his minivan. He smiled but appeared annoyed.

Ford acknowledged that he acted “inappropriately” in expressing his frustration with the police response, but the CBC reported that he exclaimed, “You . . . bitches! Don’t you f---ing know? I’m Rob f---ing Ford, the mayor of this city!”

Ford later acknowledged using the “f-word” but said he never used the word “bitch” and never used his name in a “conceited manner.”

Rumours swirled for days about the veracity of the 911 tapes. Blair finally tried to put the issue to rest because Ford did not ask that the tapes be made public, and since the tapes are private, he was the only one who could authorize their release.

On Oct. 28, Blair put out a statement saying he listened to the tapes and confirmed that Ford “did not use the word ‘bitches’ ” and “did not describe himself as the original account claimed.”

However, the CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe reported on Jan. 5 that after reviewing the matter, the CBC was standing by the stories and said Blair’s account could not be trusted because the chief “was not a disinterested party” in the matter.

The police service, LaPointe wrote, “depends on budget deliberations headed by the mayor,” and “this year’s police budget that averted layoffs was reached only in the week before this incident.”

LaPointe is employed by the CBC, but independent of the news division. He wrote that CBC’s reporting satisfied its policies on good journalism.